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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Post hoc ergo propter hoc. Just because a man had a psychotic episode after using an AI does not mean he had a psychotic episode because of the AI. Without knowing more than what the article tells us, chances are these men had the buil
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Often the problem is not even price - it is availability. In my area, the waiting list for a therapy spot is 16 months. A person in crisis does not have 16 months. LLVMs can be therapeutic crutches. Sometimes, a crutch is better than no cru
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
The cynic in me says we'll be seeing articles about blog owners getting fractions of a tenth of a penny while Cloudflare pockets most of the revenue. And of course it will eventually be rolled out for everyone, meaning there will be a
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Interestingly, and that may be a personal opinion - I have bought more music from more obscure musicians in the last few years, mostly thanks to Bandcamp. Before that, I mostly gravitated to 'blockbuster musicians', old classics
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Whenever a new tech (or cultural phenomenon) appears, you have naysayers such as this one. Luddites fought against automatic weaving stools - by destroying the machines. Reasoning: It is stealing our jobs. Comics were sure to destroy our ch
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
You can judge all you want. You'll eventually appear much like that old woman secretly judging you in church. Most of the current discourse on AI coding assistants sounds either breathlessly optimistic or catastrophically alarmist. Wha
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
I made the switch to iPhone because they had a physical mute slider. A physical 'airplane mode' would be even better. Now Apple has removed that ... and I am not happy. Yes, the functionality is theoretically available by configur
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
26^3 is only 17576 potential TLAs. Some collisions are to be expected, especially when you take into account some phrases are more likely to occur than others (such as CP for Control Panel, Certified Professional, Control Protocol, Comprehe
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
You are aware that names are not UUIDs, and that the same name can be used by several people, right? Especially since Mikkelsen is a rather common Danish surname (with around 35000 people named that) and Mads having been a very popular b
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Most likely, this wasn’t official policy — just a low-paid border agent on a personal power trip. Give a man a uniform, and watch him turn tyrant. The Stanford Prison Experiment says hello. The real problem is that the US system allows indi
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My employer has had a "no visiting the US with your real hardware, get a burner phone / a burner laptop from our IT department" for years now. The only other countries that have that kind of rule are Myanmar and Iran. The US
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Age of a movie is not an indication of it being known by younger audiences. Star Wars is 46 years old, and virtually everyone knows it.
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One movie that was not even mentioned: The Fifth Missile (1986). Aboard a nuclear-armed submarine, crew members gradually begin to descend into madness. The cause: chronic inhalation of toxic paint fumes from freshly coated interior surfa
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
I would not be surprised if the average US submariner is not exactly the kind of person who would seek out german anti-war movies about submarines. I mean, us as IT people ... how many of us have even heard of Dhunki , an 2019 Indian movie
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Yes, but there are cars. That genie has already escaped its bottle. And you pay small local stores with higher prices - which leads to more people, even in such small-towns with local butchers and bakers to get into their ride and go to t
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Enter "Coding Bootcamps" and "Hackathons"
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Which is exactly why many jobs actively require a driver's license where I live. The car analogy has that covered already. When Guttenberg was printing bibles, those things sold like warm bread rolls - these days, printing books is bar
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
I like to think of AI as cars: You can go to the Walmart outside town on foot. And carry your stuff back. But it is much faster - and less exhaustive - to use the car. Which means you can spend more quality time on things you enjoy.
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Only thing that terror bombing caused was to make sure downed foreign bomber crews were lynched by the local population if they were unfortunate enough to survive their shootdown and rallied the civilian population behind their respective r
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See also: Nazi Germany's "Wunderwaffen", Hanebu, et al.
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I grew up in Frankfurt/Main's Hellerhofsiedlung - and in the 1980s, a (smaller) variant of this was still the standard kitchen in those apartments. We moved out in the mid-1980s, when I was still a kid ... but the photo alone brin
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Nah, Webrings were an extension of the link page ... but not the same thing. The Link page was curated by the site operator and usually a linear list. IT's main goal was to say "Hey, this is cool, too". A webring was more l
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by DocTomoe 1y ago
Considering for some years now, Penn & Teller's whole act is basically exactly what this guy did, I'd chalk his shunning down to him trying to protect his identity (yes, in the last episode, he dud reveal himself, I know...
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> I remember feeding disk number 27 out of 33 only to get a "bad sector" error an hour into a software install. I'm still salty about that one. That's why mission-critical systems have several sets of floppy disks, an
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We IT folks tend to quickly propose solutions to systems whose complexities we do not completely understand. That's fine when it is about serving ads or managing book orders. It's not ok when the stakes are high. Virtualization ju
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Ah, the myth of the 'developed democratic country', as if our societies are somehow enlightened enough as to not collect material to hang us with should the need arise to silence us.
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I can assure you the average teenager in a western country has absolutely zero issues getting their weed. In fact, the older you get, the harder it becomes (as your social circle tends to shrink once you have a job).
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Well ... Boeing got themselves into the perfect storm. They need this flight to work right, after the catastrophic first attempt. But the longer they wait to get things right, the more eyebrows will be raised. They need a good flight, now
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Agreed. "Help" is a standard consolesque command in many old cli environments. I do not expect to enter my credit card number to get a basic idea on how the system works.
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That's the beauty of standards ... there are so many of them.

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